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Some of you are delusional with your desires, Trumbo isn't happening as much as I would love it to. Believe it or not we may have our own Trumbo in Ruf, the dude hit 41 total homers last year and hit 3 for us in 12 games last year.

Revere
Rollins
Utley
Howard
Young
Brown
Ruf
Kratz

And as for the Adams signing, I am jumping with joy despite it being a big risk due to his injury history. This takes so much pressure off of our young guys like Aumont and Bastardo and gives us security in the late innings. Bravo Amaro, love the moves right now.

So 6mil on a setup guy. And 7.5mil on 3b,CF,LF,RF. When will this organization value offense? If you dont score you cant win.

A big problem last year was relief. They scored enough runs to win on several occasions, yet failed to get it done once the starting pitcher was taken out. Couple those handful of games and they probably would've been in the playoffs, even after an OFF year.

Some of you are delusional with your desires, Trumbo isn't happening as much as I would love it to. Believe it or not we may have our own Trumbo in Ruf, the dude hit 41 total homers last year and hit 3 for us in 12 games last year.

Revere
Rollins
Utley
Howard
Young
Brown
Ruf
Kratz

And as for the Adams signing, I am jumping with joy despite it being a big risk due to his injury history. This takes so much pressure off of our young guys like Aumont and Bastardo and gives us security in the late innings. Bravo Amaro, love the moves right now.

Thank you. Everyone I talk to says you CAN NOT bat Young 5th. I feel if you have a career .300 hitter behind him, Howard will only see more pitches. Young could be reborn in Philly given the opportunity of full time. Ruf, well his season said it. I feel he deserves the shot. I think he also hit .330 in those 12 games too. If he was at .280, I'd be happy.

give the guy a chance before you knock him. he was considered one of the best set up men in the league for 2 of the past 3 seasons.

lets see how the team handles him too. i say they take it easy on him to start and go from there. pitchers have come back to pitch well from this, it's not like it's a career altering surgery. if it was he wouldn't have gotten a shot anywhere.

Thank you. Everyone I talk to says you CAN NOT bat Young 5th. I feel if you have a career .300 hitter behind him, Howard will only see more pitches. Young could be reborn in Philly given the opportunity of full time. Ruf, well his season said it. I feel he deserves the shot. I think he also hit .330 in those 12 games too. If he was at .280, I'd be happy.

That's because they don't know the game of baseball, I'd be shocked to see anyone but Young bat 5th to start the season. Would be willing to bet money that he produces more out of that spot than Pence and Werth did, minus the power numbers. Completely agree with everything you said, having him hit there will help Howard immensely.